Main Squeeze Literary JournalI’m half-ass dressed. it’s snowy outside.you tell me about being seven and wanting more than your parents. how your first lover didn’t do it right. I say: nobody deserves you, especially me. We tangle and sip ciders. watch comedies with leading ladies. eat fruit medleys.we’re outside in the sunset. i’m vulnerable. I tell you about Laura. about us sneaking behind Crown BBQ. being […]
1. “Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy,” my mom read. I was lying on the green carpet in my brothers’ room, two bunk beds towering over me on either side. All four of the boys were snuggled under their covers, listening, probably falling asleep. My mother made up […]
all i see is a threshold, grey and uninterrupted. it’s a miracle we weren’t destroyed by the revenants of the school we once shared. it can’t be midnight, it’s too bright, blurred. i swagger down halls with a knife in my veins trying to reinvent cassette tapesfor a new generation of suicidal wind-swept teens. the sweet embrace of death is cliché for […]
While you are sleeping in your mama’s womb you have a creepy vision. Two buffaloes dragging your body towards a cameraman. You move your fatty belly from right to lift as a stupid way to prove that you are not hungry anymore. Some mysterious smell flatter in the air like an unfinished task. You start […]
Imagine there is a black elephant creeping on your jelly belly while you are taking a nap after a very long day. The elephant moves his glossy fingers trying to fish out some of your best memories. You lay on your dear bed doing your best to keep breathing. Imagine you try to touch his […]
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